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Angie Lewin is the artist for the green revolution.  Not since William Morris has an artist combined patterned abstraction with horticultural specificity.  Her hand-made prints show seed pods and grasses, clouds and moonlight, islands and cliffs.  Her linocuts and wood engravings are both specific and universal, a quality that has made her one of the most demanded printmakers in England.

Angie was not always strongly connected to the natural world.  For years Angie lived in north London as an illustrator.  When she and her husband decided to buy a holiday cottage on the coast road in Norfolk, everything changed.  The clifftops and saltmarshes of the North Norfolk coast inspired Angie to return to print making, a discipline she had studied in graduate school.  Angie had previously studied garden design in her thirties, but found it took the joy out of gardening.  But it did open her eyes to plants.  "I became fascinated by the structure of plants," says Angie, "especially those that were about to flower or had flowered already."

Her style is recognizable: the colors are a retro palette, and the arrangement is a mix of arts and crafts and mid-century modern.  But her eye for horticultural detail elevates her designs.  In her prints, you can feel the connection between plant and place, and its this element that makes her work strikingly original.  You get a sense from her work that if you see the plant well enough, you will know the larger landscape.  Though nature is abstracted, the ecology is still present. "I like looking at the landscape through the plants," Angie says.   

Goatsbeard, dandelions, cow parsley, fennel, and sea lavender--Angie is able to turn gardeners weeds into expansive landscapes.   The process is laborious and time-consuming.  For each print, Angie begins by sketching.  The sketches become detailed sketches, which then get cut into the wood.  Each color necessitates a separate block, each of which takes up to a week to cut.  If she makes a mistake while cutting, she has to start from the beginning.  The final piece is printed on delicate Japanese paper, one block at a time.  Since everything is done by hand, Angie only runs small prints.  "I have so many sketches that Im always keen to move on to the next print."

The end results have attracted attention.   Angies prints have donned the cover of garden writer Noel Kingsbury new book, Natural Garden Style.  Kingsubry has long trumpeted the value of the structure of plant, not just its bloom or color, so her art was a good philosphic fit.  In addition, Angie has completed covers for Leslie Geddes-Browns Garden Wisdom and Jeremy Pages Salt.  Author Leslie Geddes Brown explains, "The whole book was, in its turn, inspired by the art of Angie Levin, who brings her own vision of the natural world to her work." 

To learn more about Angie Lewins work, you can visit her website.

Construction of Patio (Landscape Design)

This is a new patio which was designed and constructed by myself.To have a look at my other work you can visit my website which is www.crpoolewe.co.uk

Hello there world. Happy Monday.


So I was pondering a blog topic over the weekend and I thought this may be of use to ALL SMALL BUSINESS ONLINE RETAILERS. Recently, Warming-Trends was the target of a scam where a certain "Mr. Terry Thomas" (email: mrterry.thomas80@yahoo.com) would order large quantities of merchandise, purchase over the phone with a credit card or two (mind you they are stolen credit cards so we have learned), and then he would request to pay for shipping ahead of time and have the merchandise sent to Reverend Ken Dickinson in South Africa.


Where is the scam? Well, they insist on using FAST FREIGHT LTD (email: infoatfastfreightltd@cooltoad.com) based out of Accra, Ghana. They request that you WIRE TRANSFER MONEY TO GHANA TO PAY FOR SHIPPING AHEAD OF TIME. Then after you wire transfer the cash, they would cancel the transaction and recover the remaining funds used to purchase the items. Fortunately, we did not get caught in this scam after doing some internet homework and thinking we smelled a rat, (see links below), but we can see how this scam could catch unsuspecting online retailers off guard.

Here is a string of one of the email requests from Fast Freight requesting wire transfer payment:

__________________________________________________________________

FAST FREIGHT SHIPPING LIMITED

Attn :XXXX XXXXXX

Thanks a lot for choosing Fast Fright Ltd for all your shipping needs. For a
pick up of such product,weight and dimensions this will be the breakdown for
the shipping cost include tax,handling.

This will cost $7323. This reflects on the entire shipment. Please see below for
payment breakdown.

Pick up location of merchandise:
(our address withheld)
USA


Delivery Address:
Rev. Ken Dickson
45 Victoria Ave
Hout Bay, Cape Town
South Africa, 7806


Shipping Merchandise:
Four Fire Pit Kits
4 x 4 x 4 pallate.
Weighing approximately 240 lbs.


PAYMENT BREAKDOWN

Total freight Quote - $7323
First payment - $2,500.99 (minus)
Balance to send - $4822.01

+ ....................... +
Int. Insurance - $1920 (OPTIONAL)
+ ........................+ - $6742 Total with OPTIONAL Insurance

WESTERN UNION BREAKDOWN

1. To pay just the freight cost of $4822.01 - Western union fee is
$266 - Amount to send is $4556.01
2. To pay just the cost with insurance of $6742 - Western union fee is $380
- Amount to send is $6362


Above are payment Option and its up to you to decide on how you would be
making payment. We accept Payment Straightly from the shipper, thats from
the the Pick up location. (where we would be making the picking ). kindly let
us know how you would like to make payment so we can get back to you with the
instructions and details on how to proceed on payment. And remember always
make payment for us to put you on our shipping list to avoid the increase of
shipping rates and also avoid delay of pick up. Thanks again for choosing us
for all your shipping requirements and we look forward to serve you in the
near future.

Email me with any further information and instruction

Sincerely Yours.
Fast Fright Ltd ...
Mr. Kofi Lee
Freight and Logistics Manager

____________________________________________________________________

Here are links to some internet homework we performed:

http://persistent.blogs.com/persistent/2008/12/scammers-scammers-scammers.html
http://www.xmission.com/~daina/known_scammers.html
http://bizinquiry.blogspot.com/2009_06_22_archive.html
http://horsegossip.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=53841

We here at Warming-Trends.com hope this is helpful. We have contacted the FBI and hope that you do not get caught up in this scam.